Tragedy -- Daemons, true and false -- The fate of Athaliah--and Racine -- Metatheatre -- Hamlet Q.E.D. -- Methatheatre: Shakespeare and Calerón -- A note on Schiller's Mary Stuart -- The myth of metatheatre -- Genet and metatheatre -- Beckett and metatheatre -- Brecht: his nay and his yea -- Brecht and metatheatre -- Tragedy--or metatheatre? -- Relevancies -- Bad by north and south -- Not everyone is in the fix -- The living theatre -- Samuel Beckett and James Joyce in Endgame -- The theatre and the "absurd".